Lives behind the library · page 1 of 46

Authors and their reading worlds.

2188 author profiles with reliable dates, concise context and a direct route to every available work.

48 authors on this page

Profiles 1–48 of 2188

Jane Austen1775–1817 · England · 8 works

Lewis Carroll1832–1898 · England · 7 works

Mary Shelley1797–1851 · England · 2 works

Herman Melville1819–1891 · United States · 3 works

Bram Stoker1847–1912 · Ireland · 3 works

Arthur Conan Doyle1859–1930 · Scotland · 23 works

Charlotte Brontë1816–1855 · England · 3 works

Oscar Wilde1854–1900 · Ireland · 10 works

H. G. Wells1866–1946 · England · 32 works

Louisa May Alcott1832–1888 · United States · 10 works

Charles Dickens1812–1870 · England · 23 works

L. M. Montgomery1874–1942 · Canada · 8 works

Frances Hodgson Burnett1849–1924 · United Kingdom / United States · 10 works

L. Frank Baum1856–1919 · United States · 35 works

Jack London1876–1916 · United States · 9 works

Rudyard Kipling1865–1936 · United Kingdom / India · 14 works

Robert Louis Stevenson1850–1894 · Scotland · 36 works

Henry David Thoreau1817–1862 · United States · 6 works

Alexander Hamilton, John Jay and James Madison1751–1836 · United States · 1 work

Frederick Douglass1818–1895 · United States · 4 works

Kate Chopin1850–1904 · United States · 2 works

Kenneth Grahame1859–1932 · Scotland / England · 3 works

Adam Smith1723–1790 · Scotland · 2 works

Charles Darwin1809–1882 · England · 15 works

Plato428 BCE–347 BCE · Ancient Greece · 2 works

William Blake1757–1827 · England · 1 work

William Shakespeare1564–1616 · England · 27 works

Hugo Münsterberg1863–1916 · Germany / United States · 2 works

Francis Bacon1561–1626 · England · 4 works

Henry James1843–1916 · United States / United Kingdom · 16 works

Nathaniel Hawthorne1804–1864 · United States · 6 works

Charlotte Perkins Gilman1860–1935 · United States · 7 works

George Eliot1819–1880 · England · 6 works

W. E. B. Du Bois1868–1963 · United States · 2 works

Mark Twain1835–1910 · United States · 18 works

Edith Wharton1862–1937 · United States · 12 works

Harriet Jacobs1813–1897 · United States · 1 work

Washington Irving1783–1859 · United States · 8 works

Henrik Ibsen1828–1906 · Norway · 5 works

Emily Brontë1818–1848 · England · 2 works

Joseph Conrad1857–1924 · Poland / United Kingdom · 12 works

Harriet Beecher Stowe1811–1896 · United States · 2 works

Stephen Crane1871–1900 · United States · 2 works

Walt Whitman1819–1892 · United States · 3 works

Bernard Shaw1856–1950 · Ireland / United Kingdom · 15 works

Thomas Hardy1840–1928 · England · 9 works

Elizabeth Gaskell1810–1865 · England · 2 works

Wilkie Collins1824–1889 · England · 5 works